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Gobe Productive GPL Release In Danger

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the non-gift-of-gab dept.

Elliot writes "Gobe, developers of Gobe Productive, a fast and lightweight office suite initally developed for the BeOS and later ported to Windows and Linux (which never made it past beta stage), announced in August that they would be open sourcing Gobe Productive under the GPL. Unfortunately, it appears that financial issues might prevent this from happening. A shame to see yet another wonderful piece of software [possibly] fail."

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  1. Re:Start a fund? by BurritoWarrior · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have alternative suggestion.

    Read the artcile.

  2. Never past beta by quantaman · · Score: 3, Funny

    and later ported to Windows and Linux (which never made it past beta stage)

    Sure it's not always the most user friendly and has a lot of development ongoing but I think we can still consider Linux to be past Beta!

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  3. All GPL is doomed to fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Do you honestly think GPL will succeed? GPL is doomed to fail, I give it 10 more years till we don't hear much from it anymore.. good riddance too. PAY FOR YOUR SOFTWARE YOU COMMUNISTS.